Madeleine L'Engle
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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Time quintet volume 3
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English
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The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
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Time quintet volume 2
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English
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With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
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Austin family chronicles volume 1
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English
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The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
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Austin family chronicles volume 2
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English
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For the first time Vicky Austin feels the mixed emotions of friendship and love.
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English
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After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun. Charlotte and Mariana's stories may be different in origin, but they share the same inner turmoil. As she reads the letters, Mariana's spiritual journey sheds light on Charlotte's...
8) Many waters
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Time quintet volume 4
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English
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
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Time quintet volume 5
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English
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Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Austin family chronicles volume 4
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English
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During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
15) Troubling a star
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Austin family chronicles volume 5
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English
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As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
16) Camilla
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
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Austin family chronicles volume 3
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English
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A plot to rule New York City places the Austin family in terrifying danger.
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Crosswicks journal volume 1
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986.
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English
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This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.
20) The other dog
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Sea Star
Pub. Date
c2001.
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English
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A dog describes changes in the household that occur when the "other dog," a human infant, arrives.